Well, they believe in Jesus, it's just that they also believe he appeared in the Americas and talked to the lost tribes of Israel that somehow became Native Americans, that God was just one of many gods and he may have many wives. It's Christian in a sense that Christianity is Jewish.

James!:God saved me from this tragic accident he in no way created or allowed to kill all these other people.

Yep. This kind of shiat really bugs me about "people of faith". I called my mom to check on her when all those tornados plowed through Alabama a few years ago. She told me that they were fine and "God kept them safe". That really pissed me off. I told her I wondered what God had against the hundreds of families whose homes were destroyed in the tornados.

Well, they believe in Jesus, it's just that they also believe he appeared in the Americas and talked to the lost tribes of Israel that somehow became Native Americans, that God was just one of many gods and he may have many wives. It's Christian in a sense that Christianity is Jewish.

Mesh. Everyone knows that Jesus faked his death and died of old age in Japan.

Via Infinito:James!: God saved me from this tragic accident he in no way created or allowed to kill all these other people.

Yep. This kind of shiat really bugs me about "people of faith". I called my mom to check on her when all those tornados plowed through Alabama a few years ago. She told me that they were fine and "God kept them safe". That really pissed me off. I told her I wondered what God had against the hundreds of families whose homes were destroyed in the tornados.

You get to think without any real life effort that you are better than the others because a weather phenomenon/train derailment missed you as it destroyed everything around you.

If you've ever had the misfortune to be obliquely involved with some Mormon kid about to be on, or on, his mission - that's all they can do is spout crap about faith and god and purpose and so forth. They are being mentally conditioned every minute of every day to relate every minutia of everyday life to god and religion. If they got a pretty good turkey sandwich, they would (totally serious here) mention how god had clearly favored their lunch today and blessed this wonderful turkey sandwich and we should all glorify his name.

I understand searching for answers in lifeI understand searching for a reason when something terrible happens

I do not farking get when you attribute a life saved amid horrific death and chaosto you being farking special because your singular deityout of an infinite pantheon of deitieswas the right one to worshipbecause they/it needs you alive

Putting on my devil's-advocate hat for a moment, the thing about plans is that they have goals. At some point, they finish. If we assume that God has plans for people, what happens when they finish their plans?

Millennium:Putting on my devil's-advocate hat for a moment, the thing about plans is that they have goals. At some point, they finish. If we assume that God has plans for people, what happens when they finish their plans?

Why, some fellow wrote a book that suggested that very thing. Also, look at Patton and Lincoln.